Hacker News: nathell

Major Polish crypto exchange presumed insolvent

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/wielki-problem-zondacrypto-klienci-sie-skarza-mamy-niepokojaca-analize-7272365494077632a.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696905

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:07:31 +0000

The post is just a prelude to a 10-part article, most of which is not yet released (but will be shortly). Judging by the table of contents, the things you expected will be elaborated on in subsequent parts.

New comment by nathell in "How to get better at guitar"

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:28:45 +0000

Can attest to this.

I picked up singing 4 years ago (I’m 42 now), starting from nothing, and I’ve been taking regular lessons. I still suck. But I suck slightly less than I did when I was starting, and what motivates me is the sheer joy that it brings. I just hope it lasts.

New comment by nathell in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

nathell — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:34 +0000

HN’s guidelines say ‘Don’t editorialize’. The original title here is ‘[BUG] Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows’, which is more specific and less clickbaity.

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude

nathell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602971

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "In the next version of Bun, Bun goes ad supported"

nathell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:20:30 +0000

Can we ban April’s Fools?

Human.json

nathell — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202603/humanjson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586161

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude

nathell — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574031

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude (C++ to Java, Haskell to Clojure)

nathell — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553430

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

nathell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:29:20 +0000

I almost overlooked this, and then when I didn’t, I almost dismissed this as Yet Another Linux Distro with a custom skin. But no, there’s novelty and exploration in here. There’s attempt to venture off the local maximum. This is a breath of fresh air.

New comment by nathell in "Why I forked httpx"

nathell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:30:02 +0000

No. Even if it’s a central piece of infrastructure, any and all maintainership effort is still a token of good will of the maintainer – and needs to be appreciated, rather than expected.

If you need stronger guarantees, pay someone to deliver them.

New comment by nathell in "Why I forked httpx"

nathell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:05:30 +0000

Congratulations on forking!

Always remember that open-source is an author’s gift to the world, and the author doesn’t owe anything to anyone. Thus, if you need a feature that for whatever reason can’t or won’t go upstream, forking is just about the only viable option. Fingers crossed!

New comment by nathell in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

nathell — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:40:57 +0000

The title kind of implies that silent sudo passwords have been a part of Ubuntu for the last 46 years.

Web of Documents (2019)

nathell — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:29:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262741

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code"

nathell — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:52:04 +0000

Counterpoint: in December, a Polish MP [0] has vibe-coded an interpreter [1] of a 1959 Polish programming language, feeding it the available documentation. _That,_ at least, is unlikely to have appeared in the model’s training data.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg [1]: https://sako-zam41.netlify.app/

New comment by nathell in "XHTML Club"

nathell — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:53:36 +0000

It’s ironic that the very site in question, despite claiming XHTML compliance, is served as text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml, so the browser will never parse it as XML.

To quote [0]:

> All those “Valid XHTML 1.0!” links on the web are really saying “Invalid HTML 4.01!”.

Although the article is 20 years old now, so these days it’s actually HTML5.

Edit: Checked the other member sites. Only two are served as application/xhtml+xml.

[0]: https://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/

New comment by nathell in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

nathell — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:09:30 +0000

This resonates with my own anxiety: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/12/27/llms/

Is Polish Scrabble the most difficult in the world? [video]

nathell — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:53:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTIOHwT0FnY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730978

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

nathell — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:56:49 +0000

Well there's aalib and libcaca, but I'm not sure about their fidelity compared to this.

New comment by nathell in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nathell — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:36:20 +0000

https://danieljanus.pl

Contains the links to my blogs, my poetry translations, and some other assorted stuff.